The unfortunate events in Charlottesville, have exposed a different climate change.

In the 90’s, white supremacist groups were marginal. I remember going to the statehouse and seeing a small group of nazi’s shouted down, and eventually beat up. David Duke was never a serious presidential contender. True, Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building. White supremacists pulled off terrorist acts however they were mostly fringe.

The events leading up the 2017 destabilization of America have obviously utilized racist tactics.

]]>https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/06/27/bernies-sanders-advocates-compassion/feed/0flexnerwesDanzig Knocked Out in AZhttps://swingstateohmind.com/2017/06/06/danzig-knocked-out-in-arizona/
https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/06/06/danzig-knocked-out-in-arizona/#respondTue, 06 Jun 2017 19:51:45 +0000http://swingstateohmind.com/?p=3953]]>The President has managed to insult the foreign terror victim’s leader in London. Probably because the Mayor of London’s name could hopefully piss-off American racists. Remember, the President’s travel ban did not include countries who actually committed the most terrorist acts. The travel ban was for countries who aren’t in business with his companies.

The President has not addressed the growing amount of hatecrimes by white racist terrorists against American Citizens. Of course, he hasn’t addressed a racist murdering someone from ROTC. The president has no honest regard for the Military. Remember, the President mocked John Mccain’s valor in Vietnam? I just finished reading super-editor, Sir Harold Evan’s, “Do I Make Myself Clear?” book. This book uses edits, lists, and examples to guide efficient writing. Harold Evans’ examples include David Foster Wallace detailing the toture, and sacrifices Mccain made in Vietnam. Wallace’s essay demands us to internalize —– even after toture, McCain didn’t accept a status release until POWs who were captured before him were freed.

]]>https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/06/06/danzig-knocked-out-in-arizona/feed/0flexnerwesThings Saidhttps://swingstateohmind.com/2017/05/22/cant-retroactively-plead-the-5th/
https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/05/22/cant-retroactively-plead-the-5th/#respondMon, 22 May 2017 18:05:38 +0000http://swingstateohmind.com/?p=3885]]>Flynn is pleading the 5th. If they didn’t give him immunity then perhaps the combination of convicted Russian mobsters who rented from the President, James Comey’s firing, disclosing Intel, things admitted publicly which Sally Yates referred to as “press accounts,” the President’s twitter and be honest…how many things like this exist already in the records?

]]>https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/05/22/cant-retroactively-plead-the-5th/feed/0flexnerwesThe President Putin Americans Lasthttps://swingstateohmind.com/2017/04/04/the-president-puts-america-last/
https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/04/04/the-president-puts-america-last/#respondTue, 04 Apr 2017 14:13:51 +0000http://swingstateohmind.com/?p=3665]]>Obviously, I work from the opinion that if there is a likleyhood the President will be impeached because he worked with a foriegn power to destablize our country. The idea of passing anything he wants put into policy, or confirming a Supreme Court justice he presented is just not long-term thinking.

The following information should make anyone with sense put a hault to allowing the president to do anything but prepare his resignation speach.

]]>https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/04/04/the-president-puts-america-last/feed/0flexnerwesLying to Congress Is Not A Wiretap.https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/03/03/all-the-presidents-men/
https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/03/03/all-the-presidents-men/#respondFri, 03 Mar 2017 23:06:17 +0000http://swingstateohmind.com/?p=3510]]>It’s widely agreed Russia intended to meddle in the election and destabilize our country because of a) hostilities towards the Obama Administration which included Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. b) Oil deals. c) destabilizing countries helps gaining power over them.

We currently have someone who benefited from the destabilization of the United States. This administration has also helped destabilize further by utilizing xenophobia and racism.

What’s a way to divide the country with looming treason scandal? Xenophobia & racism..

The President has declared the press the enemy. He ruined a bunch of people’s day yesterday with his Muslim ban which actualy was not based in facts about terrorism. He wants poor white people to pay for a wall instead of having healthcare .

My simple solution is: Ban The President From Twitter.

Twitter suspended Milo Yiannopoulos who works with Steve Bannon who works with the President. No one reads that website. And without the President’s twitter it won’t have much room to grow.

My first respone: BY ANY MEANS NECESSSARY. WE MUST DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS

But it’s not that militant to Ban the President from twitter.

I would argue that the President’s twitter caused physical confrontations by having government employees stop customers from boarding plans. If these Airline consumers didn’t agree with his racist policies then they would’ve been punched or shot.

The point: The ALCU would not have to take the President’s case if he was banned from twitter. Mark Zuckerburg from Facebook doesn’t like the President either so it’s not like he could go to the competition.

Plus didn’t the President delete the U.S. Civil Rights History off the White House’s website?

]]>https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/01/30/twitter-should-ban-the-president/feed/0flexnerwesjack-from-twitterLike A Muslimhttps://swingstateohmind.com/2017/01/29/like-a-muslim/
https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/01/29/like-a-muslim/#respondSun, 29 Jan 2017 02:55:01 +0000http://swingstateohmind.com/?p=3278]]>The President’s ban does not use terrorism as a factor. It targets people who haven’t done business with him. Terrorism on American soil had no factor on the Muslim ban.

I think the thing that is difficult to stomach about the Muslim ban is that you know it’s a cheap way to hopefully manipulate fears that hurts many, and is a waste of money. This is why the emoulement clause exists. The President’s biggest impeachment threat is because these many conflicts of interests.

Politicians that are still rocking with him must have no morals and think he can bribe the judges.

I had to run errands this morning which got me driving in the neighborhood I grew up in.

I started think about the Iraqi ladies you would see walking around.
You would hear people yell racist things at them. Then you would talk to their husbands. It was like talking any other married college professor, scientist or middle class educated man. The muslim men would explain to you some general Allah is love that vaguely resembled humanism. They’d offer you dinner. Usually, you’d want to go continue skateboarding so you’d get out of these conversations.

They never told me: If your country keeps this up you will no longer have a place to skateboard.

The refugees in my neighborhood never blew up the shopping malls near my house. They never took revenge by making threats to the local corner store. They shopped at the 24 hour grocery late at night to avoid conflict with racists.

Oddly, there was never a terrorist attack while shopping at the many department stores that also sold a complete line of grocery merchandise.

Not even during either Gulf War did the Muslims in my neighborhood destroy the local dollar movie. They just lived their lives.

I started thinking about the Muslim immigrant kids that I had classes with who would start with discussing the difference between of Islam in the rap music I was listening to vs. what they believed.

We would talk. They would be on their Ramadan. I would not.

When the issue of so-called Islamic terrorism was broached, the primary talking point for these kids was: Islam is about peace. It’s probably similar to when a white racist kills a bunch of people, and your mom explains to you Jesus is about love.

The kids were immigrants so they came from a place where there was war on their soil. The word peace probably was tangible for them. I feel like most of us grew up with Islam embedded in our American culture. This is not taking anything away from PEACE and includes things I heard in rap music.

So then it’s like: you know the President has a 35 percent approval rating.

He wants to cut NEA funding and then fund the worst art installation on the Mexican border which will pretty much negate what America was trying to accomplish when it bought California at the end of the Mexican American War in 1848.

Obviously, it’s about a group of people making money, while trying to use a segment of whites who are frustrated with their lives as fuel.

Unrelated/Related: John Mccain has spent to past few years tellng everyone Putin is a former KGB agent whose goals are to make money, kill people, and restore the power the USSR had prior to the collapse of Communism. Remember they said the goal of tampering with the election is to destablize our democracy?

]]>https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/01/23/gloria-steinem-womans-march/feed/0flexnerwes35,000 of Obama’s Citizens in 2010https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/01/13/obama-35000-deep/
https://swingstateohmind.com/2017/01/13/obama-35000-deep/#respondFri, 13 Jan 2017 06:15:09 +0000http://swingstateohmind.com/?p=2955]]>I wrote this after John Legend released Love Me Now. And then didn’t use it because I thought it was not anything to read.

Obama was part of how my mother and I became closer after she was diagnosed with cancer. Not the only way. But one of them.

We had argued Obama Vs. Hillary during the 2008 primaries.
I would get all warm inside at the charisma and hope Barack exuded. Obviously, it did not hurt my excitement that America was considering electing a black president. You want the best president regardless of race. I’m just saying: givin’ our countries’ history this was good for the psychology of everyone.
I would just be like: “Could you ever think this was possible?”
There was always this look that said: “Ok…but you do know women had to fight for their rights too.” My mom said she wanted to see a woman president in her lifetime.
Growing up, and especially during our teenager years, we seldom think about our middle class moms in terms of feminism. I might contradict in some other memoir.

Maybe girls bond with their moms on this subject but teenage boys usually do not. At least in the immeadiate political sense during the current time period.
They don’t look the part and often have figured out how to make a decent living.
You feel like they retired from that.

So sometimes it’s easy to forget what could be meaningful to someone who worked 3 jobs and made sacrifices so you could have food on the table, and clothes on your back.

(I have no desire to rank oppressions. It’s divisive. I view the history in America for minorities, and women as to having their own unique experiences coupled with common oppressors, and needs.)

We had debated racial issues when I was young. I was reading Malcolm X and exploring ideas like civil rights are human rights. This required compherending the various methods people were discussing.

My mom felt reading NOI’s newspaper the Final Call was silly for a blue-eyed white kid. She had bought Muhammad Speaks during college and wasn’t feeling the NOI or Malcolm X..The White Devils thing turned her off. I tried to explain why this mythology would develop. I’m not going too deep on this one.
There was also: the “young liberals turn Republican when they get older arguments.”
My mom was centrist. She went from being a single mother on welfare in LA to a tenured ESL teacher with several Master’s Degree working in the Dublin, Ohio school district. So my rebellion was met with a healthy dose of ‘you might have been on free lunch, but you were never on welfare. I worked for this.’ Which is the boot strap argument that fuels working class skepticism towards elitist left-wing snobbery or wimpery.

She had voted for Bush 2 then later realized it was a terrible error. She was a pro-life Christian so often she put this issues before others.
The Bush regime was so terrible she learned that abortion wasn’t the best idea to make the only criteria for picking a leader.
This is important to remember when thinking about the human condition snd the idea of “life.”
She took to Hillary Clinton in 08 after Bush was so terrible.
The only way a black dude with a funny name or a woman would even made it this far is that Bush did so horrible.
He chose economic and foreign policies that destroyed our economy but benefited his friends.

Have you seen the news this month?

Once Obama got the nomination, in 08 ,she supported Obama because it was like, “Hey, I’m suffering from cancer. Let’s feel something hopeful and nor completely negative.”
Obama did wonders in fixing the country psychologically and practically.

In 08, I wrote asking if rappers would make music with Obama in mind in terms of embracing the duties of a citizen. In 2016 obviously, Chance the Rapper is a yes, backed up by everyone who played the White House or ended up on Obama’s playlist.

So this is the similar feel was tangible in the home.
My mom and I didn’t have to have the countries’ power struggles in interaction. This is the difference between having someone who believes in hope vs. someone who just wants to bully their way to power.

It just feels better.

During the Obama/Legend rally she had to sit down several times, and sorta fainted once. The importance of her wanting to see Obama speak with me empahsizes both how special Obama is and what beautiful woman my mom was. She knew her life was going to end. So she wanted to a make sure we had meaningful interactions.

If someone were magically filming us from a drone they would have something fairly poignant on tape.

The point is that the energy in air was filled with hope for the future. This is ultimate goal for a parent.

Weird side note:

While were waiting a friend of mine came up to me and said the Obama campaign had the OSU art department do a graffiti style painting in the First Ladies’ dressing room. There wasn’t anyone in the OSU art department that was adept with this median. They didn’t contact any graffiti writers but instead cut stencils that made Obama look like Hitler. At first, I was like ‘why didn’t they contact graffiti writers? It seems like the Obama’s were going for a graffiti style character.’ We had this event called Daymon Day which always featured characters. It would’ve been so easy to get one of these guys to paint the dressing room. Instead the Obama’s have to ignore Hitler stencils. Then I looked at my mom & was like well I got other things to worry about.